The car had broken down!
There were three things people feared most when riding a bus through the Supernatural World.
First.
Driving into an unknown area.
Encountering unknown Evil Spirits.
Second.
The car did not encounter any Evil Spirits, yet continued traveling through uninhabited places, unable to take you where you wanted to go. Even when the stop information said your destination was the next stop.
But it was useless.
The bus simply would not go there, or would skip that stop entirely.
This happened often.
It was called a temporary detour. It warned that the place you wanted to go might contain tremendous danger. Unless necessary, it was best not to go.
In such a situation.
If you were heading to a dangerous area, so be it.
But if it was a "residential area."
A village.
Then things became troublesome.
Once, an Awakened took the Supernatural Bus to a friend's village.
In the end.
The bus traveled for a long time.
It never reached the stop.
Although the village was clearly the next stop, after going around in circles for three months, the bus stopped at the one after that.
He felt the bus was unreliable.
He could only get off and walk.
Fortunately.
The two stops were not far apart. He did not need to cross space and could reach the destination after walking normally for a few days.
Then.
That person never appeared again.
No one knew what he had encountered, nor what had happened to that village, because the entire village had been reduced to scorched earth, as though it had been burned by a great fire.
Was it human-made?
An Evil Spirit?
There was no way to tell.
But one thing was certain: places the bus refused to visit often had serious problems.
So.
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